All,

I have some open posts in the 601-XLB forum I will update / close once I finalize the maintenance, which I haven't done yet due to other priorities unfortunately. 

I will be unable to fly for about 7 weeks so I had an idea to fill the tanks with gas and attach tubes to the exhaust and air-box intake with the other end of the tubes sealed into tupperware containers with desiccant in them. I also sealed I think the carb heat bypass outlet scat tube and oil air breather tube to prevent atmosphere entering that way. I closed the heater register in the cabin but didn't seal it. I did seal the cowling opening for the scat tube running into I think the heater muff. I think that covers all air entry into the engine. I ran out of time to de-cowl her yesterday to see if there are other opening for the carb heater, etc..

I thought this may be helpful to keep it more dry inside and hopefully not damage anything while doing this, but as with my ideas sometimes I can be wrong. I just wanted to pass this along for whatever it's worth and any feedback. I"ll be unable to get to the plane beginning tomorrow for 7 weeks, so if you think I should unseal her, please advise today.

This may be overkill for seven weeks, but future storage may be longer and I thought I might do this again.

Hope this helps, God bless,

Tim

p.s. I'm in Michigan, and we too have all kinds of rain this spring.